 | Four months ago, the Android platform was stirred, if not shaken, by a pair of code verification holes. Turns out there was a third one, now fixed in Android 4.4, better known as Kit Kat. Paul Ducklin looks at what we can learn from it... Read more.. |
 | Death threats sent to woman who dressed as Boston Marathon bombing victim for Halloween The 22-year-old US woman from Michigan tweeted and Instagrammed a photo of herself at work, dressed as a blood-covered runner. The backlash has been brutal, including getting fired and receiving death threats long after she apologized. Read more.. |
 | 1,000 alleged paedophiles identified by 10-year-old Filipina CGI girl 'Sweetie' Using Hollywood-style animation techniques, researchers created a lifelike character and seeded 19 public online chat forums with her very convincing live-action image. Over 20,000 alleged predators asked her to perform paid sex acts over the course of 10 weeks, of whom 1,000 were identified, using... Read more.. |
 | Tesco to scan your face to better tailor advertisements to you Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket chain, is set to install facial recognition technology in all 450 of its petrol station forecourts. Read more.. |
 | Are anti-virus testers measuring the right things? Do we measure resilience? What aspects of test sample selection may bias results? What are the methods used in a field-trial of anti-malware? These were among the presentations at the first Workshop on Anti-Malware Testing Research (WATeR), where we looked at the sort of things current tests of... Read more.. |
 | We need to start defining acceptable mobile advertising Advertising supports a large chunk of the apps we use on our mobile devices. But without oversight, the behaviour of ad frameworks risks crossing all manner of privacy and security lines. A proposed project aims to address this issue and define a standard for acceptable mobile ads. Read more.. |
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